SCP and CCP no longer play any role in your ability do submit links/start discussions or vote. You can now downvote as soon as you create an account. Please note that you can only vote once from a single IP address (voting IP addresses are stored encrypted and we have no way to reverse this encryption). We are still tweaking this so please report if you notice anything unusual about voting.

Edit: The biggest reason for this change is that I noticed how multiple subverses had "please upvote me" threads where their members were able to gain 300+ CCP in matter of minutes. At the same time, regular users would need weeks or even months to reach this level. That essentially broke the old system and we need something new. Perhaps requiring new accounts to create 100 comments in 100 different subs before being able to vote 100 times? If you have an idea, please feel free to share it, I'm all ears.

Edit 2: Here is an example of the problem I am trying to tackle:

a large corporation which has hundreds or thousands of employees, comes over to Voat and pushes their advertising links to the frontpage because upvotes are not restricted for new accounts as much as downvotes

at the same time, majority of Voat users today does not have the ability to downvote or has restricted downvotes

Edit 3: This is now reverted to the way it was. I need to think this through.

What good is that? Being able to block him is just averting our eyes. The subverse would still be filled with spam, we just wouldn't see it. New users, and new people who don't have an account yet would though, and that wouldn't be good.

Perhaps if enough people block a person on a certain subverse it's brought to the mods attention. So say there's a really disruptive user that isn't technically breaking any rules the mods can use that info to decide if a user should be banned for the benefit of the overall community.

I see a possible problem with hivemind blocking on some subverses where mods most certainly aren't neutral. Such feature would make it very easy for mods to silence people who disagree with the general opinion of that subverse.